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Mrs. Phelps. Hartford: Bloomfield and Hartford, Miss 

 Lorens. Tolland: Stafford, Nichols. Windham: Canter- 

 bury, Mrs. Hadley. Fairfield: Bridgeport, Eames; Darien, 

 Mrs. Lowe; Fairfield, Eames; Huntington, Nichols. New 

 Haven: Cheshire and Madison, Nichols; New Haven (1855), 

 Eaton; North Haven, /. A. Allen; Orange, Evans; Oxford, 

 Harger. Middlesex : Killingworth, Nichols. New London : 

 Ledyard, Nichols; Waterford, C. B. Graves. 



Throughout North America ; a cosmopolitan. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 62. Mrs. Lowe, 54 (incorrectly deter- 

 mined as C. minor Aust). 



Dicranella Schimp. 



1. Capsule plicate when dry; epidermis composed of narrow 



cells; stalk yellowish D. heteromalla 



Capsule always smooth; epidermis composed of quadrate 

 cells; stalk reddish 2 



2. Capsule cernuous D. varia 



Capsule erect D. rufescens 



Dicranella heteromalla (L.) Schimp. Dicranum hetero- 

 malhim Hedw. 



Clayey, non-calcareous soil in open woods. Autumn. 

 Litchfield : Salisbury, Gilman. Hartford : Southington, 

 Chamberlain. Tolland : Stafford, Nichols. Windham : 

 Canterbury, Mrs. Hadley; Windham, Nichols. Fairfield: 

 Darien, Mrs. Lozve; Huntington, Nichols. New Haven: 

 East Haven (1877) and Hamden, /. A. Allen; Madison, 

 Nichols; New Haven, O. D. Allen; Orange, /. A. Allen; 

 Woodbridge, Eaton. Middlesex : Killingworth, Nichols. 

 New London : East Lyme and New London, C. B. Graves. 



Newfoundland to Louisiana, westward to the Pacific; 

 Europe ; Asia. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 61. 



Dicranella rufescens (Dicks.) Schimp. 



Wet clayey soil. Autumn. Hartford : Wethersfield, Mrs. 

 Lowe. Fairfield : Darien, Mrs. Lozve. New Haven : New 

 Haven (1879), J- ^- Allen; Woodbridge, Eaton. 



